ZYP

Zyp bicycle

Zyp is a bike share program operating in Birmingham. The program was created REV Birmingham in partnership with the City of Birmingham, the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Program sponsors include Regions Bank, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and the Alabama Power Foundation. REV's Lindsey West is the program manager. The name and logo were developed by Big Communications.

Zyp was launched in October 2015 with the first of 400 bright green bicycles distributed to 25 stations. 100 of the bicyles include electrically-assisted pedaling. Birmingham's is the first bike share program in the United States to offer electrically-assisted bicycles. The bicycles, charging kiosks were designed by Michael Dallaire and provided, along with GPS-enabled management software, by Bewegen of Quebec, Ontario. The bicycles themselves were manufactured by Procycle.

During its first year, the program expanded from 25 to 40 stations. As of April 4, 2016 the system has 5,812 members and has provided 20,768 trips for a total distance of 27,379 miles. At that time there were 359 bikes in service and 31 kiosks in operation, most of which were equipped to accept payment for memberships.

Stations

• Payment Kiosk: Birmingham Intermodal Station, 1600 Morris Avenue
• Payment Kiosk No. 1: Alabama Power building, 18th Street at 6th Avenue North
• Payment Kiosk No. 2: 41st Street South, Avondale
• Payment Kiosk No. 3:
• Payment Kiosk No. 3: Uptown, BJCC
• Payment Kiosk No. 4:
• Payment Kiosk No. 5:
• Payment Kiosk No. 6 (1 of 2): Birmingham City Hall, Linn Park, Short 20th Street
• Payment Kiosk No. 6 (2 of 2): Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place
• Payment Kiosk No. 7:
• Payment Kiosk No. 8 (1 of 2): Fix-Play Lofts, 2300 1st Avenue North
• Payment Kiosk No. 8 (2 of 2): Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Kelly Ingram Park, 520 16th Street North
• Payment Kiosk No. 9: UAB McCallum Basic Health Sciences Building, 20th Street South at University Boulevard
• Payment Kiosk No. 10:
• Payment Kiosk No. 11: McWane Science Center, 216 19th Street North
• Payment Kiosk No. 12:
• Payment Kiosk No. 13:
• Payment Kiosk No. 14: Innovation Depot, 1500 1st Avenue North
• Payment Kiosk No. 15:
• Payment Kiosk No. 16: Regions Center, 20th Street at 5th Avenue North
• Payment Kiosk No. 17: Birmingham VA Primary Care Clinic, 24th Street at 7th Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 18: Railroad Park west gate, Regions Field, 14th Street at 1st Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 19 (1 of 2): Railroad Park east gate, 18th Street at 1st Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 19 (2 of 2): Moe's BBQ, 29th Street South, Lakeview
• Payment Kiosk No. 20: Station 121, 100 block of 20th Street South
• Payment Kiosk No. 21: Children's Hospital, 17th Street at 5th Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 22:
• Payment Kiosk No. 23: Kirklin Clinic, 2000 6th Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 24:
• Payment Kiosk No. 25:
• Payment Kiosk No. 26: UAB Campus Green south side, 1523 9th Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 27:
• Payment Kiosk No. 28:
• Payment Kiosk No. 29:
• Payment Kiosk No. 30: Chick Fil-A, 5 Points South, opened April 1, 2016
• Payment Kiosk No. 31: Phelan Park, 14th Street South and 14th Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 32:
• Payment Kiosk No. 33:
• Payment Kiosk No. 34: Martin Biscuit building, Pepper Place, 29th Street South at 3rd Avenue South
• Payment Kiosk No. 35:
• Payment Kiosk No. 36:
• Payment Kiosk No. 37:
• Payment Kiosk No. 38:
• Payment Kiosk No. 39: Caldwell Park (planned)
• Payment Kiosk No. 40: Rojo, Rushton Park
• Wayfinding Kiosk: Jefferson County Department of Health, 1400 6th Avenue South
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 1: Forest Park Village, 3912 Clairmont Avenue South
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 2: Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3, Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North at 4th Avenue North
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 4: Birmingham Social Security Administration Center, 1200 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 5: Marconi Park, 24th Street at 6th Avenue North
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 6: Memorial Park Recreation Center, 524 6th Avenue South, Titusville
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 7: Phoenix Lofts, 1701 2nd Avenue North
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 16: 1st Avenue North at 25th Street
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 17: Birmingham Intermodal Facility, 1600 Morris Avenue
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 22: Jefferson County Department of Health, 1400 6th Avenue South
• Wayfinding Kiosk No. 88: Sloss Furnaces

References

• Davis, Bryan (July 20, 2015) "'Zyp' to be official brand of REV's BikeShare program." Birmingham Business Journal
• Stein, Kelsey (April 1, 2016) "3 new bikeshare locations make it even easier to Zyp around Birmingham." The Birmingham News

External links

• Zyp website